We all live within our own digital bubbles. The convenience of social networks is inevitable — and far too persuasive.
This installation emerges from a reflection on how algorithms shape our choices. Today, even our tastes seem to be determined by invisible calculations — numbers and statistics that predict what we are likely to enjoy.
This project proposes a pause in that automatism. It seeks to restore to creation its spontaneous and unpredictable nature, reminding us that true creativity arises from chance, curiosity, and the freedom to explore without a set destination. To create is to travel without a map, appreciating every moment along the way.
To counter the predefined logic of the algorithm, we worked collaboratively and organically. Among colleagues, we brought together different artistic expressions — creative writing, digital photography, and screen printing — in a shared process that values dialogue between disciplines.
As a result of this collective effort, 24 paper spheres were constructed to serve as supports for the visual and textual compositions developed throughout the process. Each sphere represents a small constellation of ideas, gestures, and discoveries, bearing witness to the beauty of free creation, undirected by any algorithm.
Born in Cidade da Praia in 1984, but raised in Barreiro. In 2004, he completed the technical course in Image and Communication at ETIC, and in 2008 he earned a master’s degree in Motion Graphics at BAU Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona. Between 2004 and 2010, he worked as a graphic designer. He has participated in several group and solo exhibitions, both in Portugal and abroad. He seeks to cultivate his interest in research and the preservation of artifacts, recovering memories important to collective and personal identity. Divided between these boundaries, he creates compositions between the real and the fictional, forging his own path and creating dialogues that are forgotten—either deliberately or unintentionally.
